I will not be watching the State of the Union address tonight. And what will I be missing, really? These things are all pretty much the same, regardless of the president or the actual state of the country. The president will walk in, say the state of the union is strong or something similar, and [...]
Archive for November, 2011
Thanks to my employer’s book club, I finally got around to reading Milton and Rose Friedman’s Free to Choose, and in their chapter about equality, they make an important point that libertarians sometimes make but not nearly enough: the market actually makes us more equal in what we are able to consume. Consider: Industrial progress, [...]
Sorry for the lack of posts here over the last week, but I have made a number of posts over at the Show-Me Daily blog, which is somewhat more important as they employ me now. In my latest post, I argue that Missouri should not force health insurance companies to cover treatments for autism. Here [...]
Last week news broke that MIT economist Jonathan Gruber failed to disclose that he was paid almost $400,000 to consult with the White House on health care reform. Gruber never mentioned this even though he repeatedly commented favorably on the Democratic health care proposals. That’s bad enough, but Jane Hamsher at the Huffington Post points [...]
Despite Obama’s lofty rhetoric about taking on the special interests with health care reform, most of the special interests are fully on board with reform and expect to profit handsomely from it. Don’t believe me? Well, why else would all the major health care lobbyists be lining up behind Martha Coakely, the Democrat expected to [...]
Sorry for the lack of links the last few weeks, but the holidays kept me very busy and since then I’ve been searching for a new apartment. Nevertheless, I have been derelict in my blogging duties, so here are some good links to cheer the start to your work week. My nomination for best local [...]
Yesterday, the A.P. interviewed Defne Bayrak, the wife of Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, who killed seven CIA employees in a suicide bombing in Afghanistan. What would make a doctor travel thousands of miles and die to kill some people he’s never met? According to Bayrak “her husband was outraged over the treatment of Iraqis at [...]
Writing in The Freeman, historian Stephen Davies tackles several historical myths, among them the supposed economic success of Nazi Germany: In the case of the Third Reich, the widely held perception even now is that whatever else may be said about his regime, Hitler managed to bring about a dramatic revival of the German economy. [...]
There are a number of sports that interest me, but as anyone who knows me or even reads me on a regular basis can attest, baseball is the only one I obsess over. I think the ultimate reason for this is that it is a far more cerebral game than the other major American sports [...]
